Kathryn Fontaine
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2026
Characterization and Initial Optimization of Reconstruction Performance for Detector Crosstalk of Ultra-high Performance Brain PET Imager
Zhang J, Fontaine K, Li T, Gravel P, Toyonaga T, Hu Y, Gallezot J, Zeng T, Volpi T, Lu Y, Marin T, Qi J, Carson R. Characterization and Initial Optimization of Reconstruction Performance for Detector Crosstalk of Ultra-high Performance Brain PET Imager. IEEE Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences 2026, PP: 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2026.3698769.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOptimization of brain PET markerless head motion correction in a large human cohort
Zeng T, Zhang J, Gallezot J, Fontaine K, Jiang W, Gravel P, Mulnix T, Naganawa M, Yang Z, Zhang X, Wang S, Sun X, Hu L, Carson R. Optimization of brain PET markerless head motion correction in a large human cohort. EJNMMI Physics 2026 PMID: 42213388, DOI: 10.1186/s40658-026-00885-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVariance reduction with synaptic density imaging in Parkinson’s disease using direct-4D PET image reconstruction
Gravel P, Gallezot J, Fontaine K, Matuskey D, Carson R. Variance reduction with synaptic density imaging in Parkinson’s disease using direct-4D PET image reconstruction. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2026, 71: 065007. PMID: 41825140, PMCID: PMC13014069, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ae520a.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDose reduction for synaptic density PET imaging in Parkinson’s disease
Li A, Naganawa M, Honhar P, Fontaine K, Gravel P, Matuskey D, Carson R, Tang J. Dose reduction for synaptic density PET imaging in Parkinson’s disease. NeuroImage 2026, 331: 121853. PMID: 41833889, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121853.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
Cranberry: Combined Rigid and Nonrigid Event-by-Event Motion Correction at Yale
Zhang J, Fontaine K, Volpi T, Zeng T, Du Y, Sun C, Lu Y, Toyonaga T, Onofrey J, Carson R. Cranberry: Combined Rigid and Nonrigid Event-by-Event Motion Correction at Yale. 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) And Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD) 2025, 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57106.2025.11286359.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchImpact of Depth-of-Interaction and Spatially-Variant Point-Spread-Function Model on the Performance of Ultra-High Resolution Brain PET
Zeng T, Najmaoui Y, Zhang J, Fontaine K, Hu Y, Chemli Y, Gallezot J, Sun C, Lu Y, Fakhri G, Carson R, Marin T. Impact of Depth-of-Interaction and Spatially-Variant Point-Spread-Function Model on the Performance of Ultra-High Resolution Brain PET. 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) And Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD) 2025, 1-2. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57106.2025.11287015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDevelopment and Initial Evaluation of 3D-Printed High Resolution Brain Phantom for PET
Lo C, Shanina E, Gravel P, Hu Y, Lucero S, Martins S, Mulnix T, Fontaine K, Nejati S, Sun X, Li H, Qi J, Cherry S, Carson R, Toyonaga T. Development and Initial Evaluation of 3D-Printed High Resolution Brain Phantom for PET. IEEE Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences 2025, 10: 603-610. PMID: 41446501, PMCID: PMC12724537, DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2025.3638588.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchYRT-PET-NX: Development of a Plugin for an Open-Source PET Reconstruction Platform to Support the NeuroEXPLORER
Najmaoui Y, Fontaine K, Fontaine D, Zhang J, Zeng T, Volpi T, Chemli Y, Gallezot J, Tétrault M, Carson R, Fakhri G, Marin T. YRT-PET-NX: Development of a Plugin for an Open-Source PET Reconstruction Platform to Support the NeuroEXPLORER. 2025, 00: 1-2. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57106.2025.11287275.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPET Head Motion Estimation Using Supervised Deep Learning With Attention
Cai Z, Zeng T, Zhang J, Lieffrig E, Fontaine K, You C, Revilla E, Duncan J, Xin J, Lu Y, Onofrey J. PET Head Motion Estimation Using Supervised Deep Learning With Attention. IEEE Transactions On Medical Imaging 2025, 45: 1265-1278. PMID: 41082441, PMCID: PMC13097669, DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2025.3620714.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchYRT-PET: An Open-Source GPU-Accelerated Image Reconstruction Engine for Positron Emission Tomography
Najmaoui Y, Chemli Y, Toussaint M, Petibon Y, Marty B, Fontaine K, Gallezot J, Razdevsek G, Orehar M, Dhaynaut M, Guehl N, Dolenec R, Pestotnik R, Johnson K, Ouyang J, Normandin M, Tetrault M, Lecomte R, Fakhri G, Marin T. YRT-PET: An Open-Source GPU-Accelerated Image Reconstruction Engine for Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences 2025, 10: 535-546. PMID: 41424471, PMCID: PMC12714321, DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2025.3619872.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThis study introduces YRT-PET, an open-source GPU-accelerated software for PET image reconstruction, demonstrating high flexibility, speed, and compatibility with existing tools for dynamic imaging and motion correction.
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